"With prodigious industry Dilip Hiro has assembled a great many facts, and there are passages of neat and useful summary" - Patrick Seale, The Observer"Inside the Middle East is politics at the highest level. . . quite extraordinarily detailed and very well researched. . . It will be of enormous use as a source of information and reference generally about the politics of the Middle East" - C. R. Pennell, New Statesman"Dilip Hiro has tackled a complex subject with infectious enthusiasm. . . Inside the Middle East is the most useful ... reference book of its kind" - Roger Cooper, New Society"A lot of work has gone into this book... The information seems mostly accurate and in places quite interesting... especially on leftist forces in the Arab world and Arab relations with the Soviet bloc, on which Dilip Hiro gives more details than one usually finds in a non-specialist work" - Edward Mortimer, Times Educational Supplement